Hi everyone. I'm brand new here to the community and atlas. But I have a few years of experience with ARK. I am playing singleplayer on the xbox and am having an issue with sinking enemy pirate ships. I have 14 medium cannons on each side of my ship. I can take on ghost pirates no problem, but when it comes to fighting regular pirate ships I dont stand a chance. I can pelt them multiple times with entire volleys that would obliterate any ghost ships. But when I hit a wild pirate ship, they take no damage at all. The game tells me I'm doing 1.5k damage per hit. But the health bar on the enemy ship doesnt move. Some of my game settings are tweaked to make things less time consuming a grindy. But nothing that touches on any enemy health or damage stats. So I'm really confused what might be causing this??
Please help, this is really killing the game for me. What's the point in being a pirate if I cant fight other pirate ships?